Team formed to probe bribery claims in police recruitment
The National Police Service Commission (NPSC) has formed a team to investigate claims of bribery and other complaints arising from the recent police recruitment exercise.
The team will collect and analyse the complaints and present its findings in seven days.
Members of the team are drawn from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, the Police, the Interior ministry, the National Police Service Commission, the National Intelligence Service and civil society.
NPSC chairman Johnston Kavuludi said his agency had so far received 350 reports, including complaints and commendations.
“We wish to assure Kenyans that together we have undertaken a collaborative approach to undertake a comprehensive audit of the complaints received and will not hesitate to take stern action on anybody found culpable and where necessary, such action shall include nullification of the exercise at the affected areas,” he said.
CLAIMS OF CORRUPTION
Members of the public have up to July 24 to submit their complaints about the recruitment.
Complaints can either be dropped off at the commission’s headquarters at Sky Park Plaza in Westlands, Nairobi, or sent by email to [email protected], as well as to P.O. Box 47363-00100, Nairobi.
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority and the Consumers Federation of Kenya are among the institutions that claimed the recruitment was tainted by corruption.
If allegations of malpractice are proven, the results of an entire recruitment centre would be cancelled.
A total of 10,000 candidates aged between 18 and 30 years, among nearly 100,000 applicants, were picked to join the police service.
